Jade Stone's :::Vanity:::Let he who is without vanity cast the first insult~
Vain to me smacks of superficialities which
In the long run prove fragile and meaningless
You can be proud of your accomplishments without worries of being vain
Lose your hair, lose your teeth, lose your looks, lose your vanity—Poetess
Fashion statements
Youth
Dress-up make-up
Forsooth
A little vanity never...
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Categories:
vanity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Jade Stone's :::Confidence:::She laughs, she cries, then she sighs
brimming with confidence,
the pain within she denies
Her heart thumps then skips a beat,
as she reads poetry, a taste of bittersweet
In quiets empty moments, a hole
remains deeply in the soul,
an abyss , an unmeasured chasm
It’s the space p~o~e~t~r~y fills
Her personal dead poet society
stirring her deepest passions
awakens...
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Categories:
vanity, confidence, feelings,
Form: Dramatic Verse
I can't compete with your vanity
You spent an hour in the mirror—
I spent an hour in the bar.
Your lipstick’s a death sentence
I don’t want to serve.
I walk through these rooms,
thinking of small deaths,
wishing I had the nerve
to pack up and leave.
You think I envy your silk shirts,
your hair that floats like smoke.
But I have my own ruin to feed
with whiskey...
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Categories:
vanity, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Person I've BecomeMirror, mirror on the wall,
tell me the truth, tell me all.
The passing of youth,
and of dreams young.
Reverence for the truth,
songs of the heart, freely sung.
I see the happy days of innocence,
the fond memories of childhood.
The unquestioned acceptance
of all things pure, all things good.
Mirror, mirror on...
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Categories:
age, introspection, self, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
FireFlames that ignite
bright RED at its core,
BLUE attempts to cool
the ravenous HUNGER but
overwhelmed by Red's
hot desire
-
through the Night it
burns...
its visible heat scorches
the skin of the prisoner...yet
it kisses endearingly while
leaving a freshly mark of
sole ownership
-
TORTUROUS feeling reigns
in a field of thrones...
a rose in its prime leaks
blood...
TORMENTED...
SUFFOCATED-
coddled violently but
its beautiful hue continues
to call...
...The Master of...
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Categories:
vanity, black love, desire, fire,
Form: Other
orchid bloomsorchid blooms skiting
elegance high on a stick
~ vanity rainbow
AP: Honorable Mention 2025...
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Categories:
vanity, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, color,
Form: Haiku
RetaliationRetaliation-the action of harming someone because they have harmed oneself, revenge~ protectionism invites retaliation—def it is what it is
...
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Categories:
perspective, vanity,
Form: Senryu
Paper TigersSome go
through life
in a sophomoric
zone
Knowing about
strangers
while being
alone
To ever
quote names
or that face
in the crowd
Aggrandizing
self
as their folly
— astounds
(Reading Market Philadelphia: May, 2025)
...
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Categories:
vanity,
Form: Rhyme
FootprintsBe one with the earth
For she understands all.
All beings are transient; breathe -
Whether you walk or crawl.
In whispers of wind, the stories unfold,
Each step leaves a trace, in soft grains of gold.
Through shadows of ages, our journeys entwine,
In the dance of existence, our footprints...
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Categories:
vanity, appreciation, confidence, deep, earth,
Form: Quatrain
Nobody Can Resist A CharmerAttractive lady with long shining hair,
nobody can resist such a charmer;
I bet you turn guys on to have fun,
and when danger comes, you run!
The one that promises the joys of Heaven
and make him walk slowly on rainless clouds
is a true deceiver who counts just to seven,
he's ready to give a handful of fake outs!
No...
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Categories:
vanity, anger, desire, emotions, how
Form: Lyric
Broken mirrorWhy do you seem so confident.
When all this will disappear.
Why does it seem so evident.
When you finally face your fear.
When hell has lost its precedence.
And heavens a wish a way.
You murdered all your yesterdays
and placed them in shallow graves
Oh, mirror mirror on the wall
am I a shadow in your heart.
Oh mirror...
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Categories:
vanity, confidence, fantasy, horror, identity,
Form: Free verse
A vision of obscurityIf I watch you closely dose that make me insecure.
If you're longing for a lover maybe?
My love is to impure.
Impleaded fantasy's
I'm sick and you're the cure.
Materialistic lament,
hypercritical that's for sure.
Under a blanket of infidelity,
obscene and obscured.
hearts are devoured,
blood thirsty, and I want more.
A monster lives inside of me.
Indecisions and he not sure,
If...
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Categories:
vanity, conflict, horror, mystery, psychological,
Form: Free verse
21st Century Emperor'sThe emperors have no clothes on!
People are living in a trance
Psychologists like to call it cognitive dissonance
Perhaps even a carefully crafted chance
To see what isn't there, only to praise a hollow show,
While truth and reason disappear, common senses go.
It’s just simply a situation gone sad
I can’t help but wonder, have we been had or merely...
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Categories:
vanity, confusion, life, parody, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Thought of the dayto give ourselves a raise, do we seek praise ~
delusion of vanity, let’s erase...
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Categories:
introspection, spiritual, vanity,
Form: Couplet
Terms and Conditions May ApplyWe cured death on a Tuesday,
launched the trial on a Thursday,
by Friday, 14% of the test group
was gnawing on the janitorial staff.
Still, the press was kind.
“Remarkable resilience,” they wrote,
as Unit 42A chewed through its restraints,
and tried to bite a cameraman.
We called them SoulSavers™,
engineered for eternal youth,
a proprietary blend of nanites, CRISPR,
and just a dash of...
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Categories:
vanity, dark, horror, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Vanity Poems
Definition | What is Vanity in Poetry?
Poems Related to Vanity
pride, arrogance, narcissism, self love, show, ostentation, pretension, airs, vainglory, affectation, display, ego trip, conceitedness, smugness, self worship, big headedness, self admiration, showing off,